[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47687] automatic broadcasting for assignment operations

[Lachlan Andrew]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #47687 (project octave):

Michael, what default warning are you talking about?  AFAICT, there was a
warning in 3.8.2 but that warning was removed in 4.0.0.

More specifically, the warning was merged into "Octave:language-extension",
which is thrown so frequently by Octave's own scripts as to be unusable.

I have argued that it should be reinstated as a separate warning, but Carnë
argued strongly against that, on the basis that it is "part of the language",
as I mentioned below.

I entirely agree that broadcasting is useful, and it would be great to have
new operators to do it more cleanly that bsxfun (akin to ./ .* etc, we could
have _/ _* etc or some such).  I just don't like the fact that it is
compulsorily overloaded onto common operators.

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